Ashley Pridgeon

My first first author paper! Looking at the contribution of ABA signalling to dark induced stomatal closure. Its open access, so read here - go.nature.com/3bz9le4 @BristolBioSci @SWBio_DTP @SciReports

Our paper is out! 🥳🌿 We show that auxin transport regulates shoot branching architecture in the lycophyte, _Selaginella kraussiana_, suggesting that PIN-mediated auxin transport is an ancestral regulator of branching in vascular plants. @Dev_journal journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

I'm really excited to be starting my first day as a @LeverhulmeTrust ECR fellow at @BristolBioSci! Big thanks to @BCAI_UoB for helping fund this. I'll be starting work on the role of stomata in seedling establishment 🌱🍃

I also enjoyed having a glass of beer with former lab members and current collaborators, Ashley Pridgeon, James Clark and Peng Sun. I can recommend the "square root of nine" craft beer pub in Kaifeng! Great to meet students from Henan University at the Symposium Dinner.

Did you ever wonder why vascular plant shoots don’t terminate in sporangia like bryophytes do? I’m excited to be able to offer a 4-year funded PhD @BristolBioSci to find out! Project info on findaphd.com & please get in touch if you’d like to know more.

I'm delighted to advertise a fully-funded 4 year PhD studentship for UK students of Black heritage @BristolBioSci. Interested in improving yields of an emerging crop while living in a brilliant city? If so please get in touch! @BlackInPlantSci #phdposition findaphd.com/phds/project/f…

Want to study plant development and symbiosis? Apply to do this PhD with @kathschiessl and myself!

A PhD opportunity (findaphd.com/phds/project/g…) to come to Bath and work with myself @WillsProf and @glpcjd on all things plants, from morphology to genomes 🌿🌲🌱

nlsABACUS1 and nlsABACUS2 Arabidopsis lines are now available at @NascArabidopsis! arabidopsis.info/StockInfo?NASC… arabidopsis.info/StockInfo?NASC… arabidopsis.info/StockInfo?NASC… arabidopsis.info/StockInfo?NASC… arabidopsis.info/StockInfo?NASC… nature.com/articles/s4147…

Wondering where CLAVATA genes are doing their job during the whole moss life cycle? Well, turns out they are pretty much all over the place, with a few notable exceptions! Very proud of this work with @ilichenmoss and Jill Harrison! tinyurl.com/mrj6vd7j

It's time for another Monogram takeover! ☀️ Hi, I'm @KatieJeal7, a final year @SWBIO_DTP PhD student @BristolBioSci in Jill Harrison's group. Join me over the next three weeks to hear about my PhD project, life at Bristol and the papers I'm interested in! (1/3)

Amazing 🤩 artwork by @jodie_armand the #stomata sculpture is a must-see at #biofest

Fantastic stomatal session at this years ⁦⁦@SEBiology⁩ - thanks to all the great speakers and thank you to the session sponsors ⁦@JXBot⁩ ⁦@PlantDirectJ⁩ ⁦@ThePlantJournal⁩

A project I was involved with from my post-doc has just been published! Looking at HY5 and HYH and their role in suppressing shade avoidance under low dose UV-B onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Very excited to see @XinCheng0521's insight "From grasses to succulents – development and function of distinct stomatal subsidiary cells" published online. We discuss what subsidiary cells are and how they are formed differently in grasses and succulents nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Congratulations to third year undergrad student Jennie Yang who has been awarded a prestigious @GatsbyEd Undergraduate Studentship. She will undertake a plant science summer research project at the @BristolUni under the supervision of @AJPridgeon buff.ly/3W7iRe8

Excited to see this story now published in @Dev_Cell. In short we found (1) embryonic stomatal prepattern allows for quick, controlled development at germination (2) activity of key regulators is restricted at two points during embryogenesis. A thread 1/12 tinyurl.com/ykzpnn62

Paper out! How do 🌱🌿 adapt to drier weather? Using AFM we show stomata may use "fucosylation" to adapt their nano viscoelasticity. Less fucosylated stomas are less stiff, but also less viscous, and overall their local time response remains the same more: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

Interested in fundamental questions in plant developmental biology and like living in fantastic cities? Come have fun with Arabidopsis in Bristol! I'm recruiting for two fully funded PhD studentships @BristolBioSci, details below: findaphd.com/phds/project/h… findaphd.com/phds/project/l…

🔔Another fully-funded PhD - RT please 🔔 If you have interests on plants and understanding the beauty of how flowers turn into fruits, have a look on this PhD position with an amazing supervisor: @BeatrizPGoncalv 🍓🍎🍊 🌸 🌺🌼🌱🌳 findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

Come join the lab!